Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio
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Fort Sam Houston, the Army post on the north side of San Antonio, is the subject here, shown in one of the glass negatives that the Bain News Service produced for its wire photo operation. George Grantham Bain founded the agency in New York in the early 1900s, and it sent staff photographers and purchased images to newspapers across the country, so its files capture everyday scenes and notable places of the period. The Library of Congress holds the collection, but the title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact date and vantage point are uncertain. Fort Sam Houston has been a major military installation since the late 1870s, and images like this one help show how the post looked during the era when the Army was expanding its presence in Texas.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,798 × 4,223 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10253 |
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